Debut the Celebrity Xcel cruise ship
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 29 Apr 2025
- Due
- 31 Dec 2025
- Delivered
- by 31 Dec 2025
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“This year continues our guest experience innovation with the debut of Star of the Seas, Celebrity Xcel, and the opening of Royal Beach Club Paradise Island by year-end”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Royal Caribbean Group confirmed in its 2025 10-K filing that it took delivery of the Celebrity Xcel cruise ship during the 2025 calendar year.
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A Royal Caribbean Group 10-K filed 2026-02-11
“We took delivery of two ships (Star of the Seas and Celebrity Xcel) and continued to expand our vacation ecosystem with the opening of Royal Beach Club Paradise Island, closing on the acquisition of the port of Costa Maya in 2025” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Royal Caribbean Group 10-K filed 2026-02-11
“In 2025, Royal Caribbean introduced Star of the Seas, and Celebrity Cruises introduced Celebrity Xcel.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -6.5% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (10 Feb 2026 to 13 Feb 2026). What this measures
Checked 17 Oct 2026.
Commitment lineage
Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.
- 1 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 29 Apr 2025
Deadline 31 Dec 2025 (“by year-end”)
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Version 2 · stated 28 Oct 2025
Deadline 30 Nov 2025 (“in mid-November”)
“Celebrity Xcel in mid-November”
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Delivery
- Indicative materiality
- Medium rules
- Action
- Debut
- Deliverable
- Celebrity Xcel ship
- In the company’s control
- High
- Specificity
- High
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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